There are clerics who prefer very simple robed attire and those who like lavish robes and when the two are opposed as in any matter the question should always be who is most like Jesus. There are those who are so free and loose that they begin to sound a bit like New Agers and there are those who are so harsh in their religiosity that one is tempted to think, in the way of legalism, of the Pharisees. Any extreme plays into the hands of the enemy. A problem in our time is that we talk more about religion than we do immersing ourselves in the spirituality of it.
And so there is the crisis of division.
A schism?
We are not at this point close to that. But the level of divisiveness is more pronounced that any time since Vatican II in the 1960s.
Maria Esperanza had some things to say about this.
Emmerich.